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Soil also suffers from heat waves: Organic waste boosts its tolerance to 50°C

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Soil also suffers from heat waves: Organic waste boosts its tolerance to 50°C

The successive heat waves that sweep across southern Spain in summer have harmful effects on the entire community that lives there, from humans to the microbes that inhabit the soil. Both share an impressive resilience that has enabled them to survive and adapt, each in its own way, to successive episodes of extreme temperatures. But that adaptability has its limits.

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